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Sherman Massacre of 1930

Description: Paper exploring the lynching of George Hughes in Sherman, Texas in 1930, the ensuing race massacre, and how this event impacted the Black community in the city for decades to come.
Date: March 31, 2023
Creator: Elder, Aidan
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Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Investigation of Mosquito Ecology and West Nile Vertical Transmission in Denton Texas

Description: Undergraduate thesis investigating the rate of vertical transmission that takes place in wild Culex quinquefasciatus populations by testing samples of emergent Culex quinquefasciatus adults to see what number of mosquitos test positive for West Nile Virus (WNv) throughout the summer and fall, and thus estimate the rate of vertical transmission of the virus in wild mosquitos.
Date: Autumn 2013
Creator: Caughlin, Morgan
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Partner: UNT Honors College
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Growing local foods movements: Farmers' markets as nodes for products and community in Dallas/Fort Worth

Description: Undergraduate thesis building on Feagan's (2007) analysis of ideas of community and place, and Kloppenburg et al.'s (1996) concept of foodsheds, and a modified form of drive-time polygons, termed 'marketsheds' that demarcate the consumer-draw area for farmers' markets. Specifically, the research analyzes the spatial distribution of local food communities in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (DFW) in Texas and links the foodshed concept to elements of community and sense of place. Two questions gu… more
Date: 2013~/2014~
Creator: Aucoin, Martin
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Partner: UNT Honors College
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Legacies of Power: The Cultural Heritage of Theological White Supremacy, A Case Study of Ku Klux Konfederatism in Denton County Texas, 1850-1930

Description: Undergraduate thesis exploring modern American racism as the result of the nation's legacy of theological white supremacy and its deep-rooted racial issues that remain unresolved because of the theo-mythologies embedded at the core of the nation's foundational fabric that have been and continue to be largely unaccounted for in corrective racial discourse through a case study of Denton, Texas. By employing localized interdisciplinary methodological approaches aimed at unveiling the theo-myth whi… more
Date: April 20, 2020
Creator: Luther Rummel, Jessica Rae
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Partner: UNT Honors College
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Do You Get Me? Exploring Cross-Cultural Communication Between Refugees and Health Practitioners

Description: Paper discusses recurring themes in cross-cultural communication between medical practitioners and refugees, specifically Vietnamese refugees who have lived in the United States for more than 20 years, at the Dallas County Health Services Refugee Clinic, including substitution, omission, editorialization with the use of an interpreter, and nonverbal communication expressed by both populations.
Date: 2010
Creator: Haynes, Kayla Marie
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The Production of Cultural Boundaries: The Influence of Participatory Journalism on the Immigration Debate in Texas

Description: Paper uses a content analysis of the editorial section in a major Dallas-area newspaper to demonstrate a shift within American public discourse toward moral and cultural arguments against illegal immigration, and argues that this is due to the inclusion of participatory journalism in newspaper editorial pages.
Date: 2008
Creator: Williams, Alexander T.
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